The film took five years to make and although sources offer mixed reports, filming likely took the best part of a year. At the time he was cast, Danny Lloyd was just five-years-old. To protect him from psychological trauma, Kubrick did not tell Lloyd the storyline of the film. He told Danny that the film he was making was a drama and hid all of the horrific and frightening scenes from him. In the scene where his on-screen mother runs with Danny in his arms, it is actually a dummy. Lloyd was sixteen when he saw the movie for the first time.

Unfortunately, life on set was less pleasant for Shelly Duvall, who played Jack’s wife. There have many reports that Kubrick was exceptionally hard on her during filming. In the infamous “Here’s Johnny” scene where Wendy swings a bat at Jack, it took 127 takes to get right. In the scene that made the final cut, Duvall’s exhaustion and horror are genuine. She once said: “From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I’ve ever been pushed before. It’s the most difficult role I’ve ever had to play.” 

And do you remember child actresses Lisa and Louise Burns who played the creepy twins? They were never meant to be cast, but Kubrick decided that twins were way creepier than one young girl. For their birthday, the director gave the twins vials of fake blood. It was the same fake blood that they had to lie in following their brutal on-screen murder. 

Unfortunately, despite all of the effort that went into making sure the entire cast gave it their all, Stephen King was not happy with the movie. He describes it as a “disappointment” and thinks that Jack Nicholson was all wrong for the role. Ironically, King may be one of the only horror fanatics who didn’t like the movie.

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The project, which was first reported by Collider, is in development at FX and it’s still in the early stages and a writer hasn’t been attached yet.

The book has had two film adaptations, with the latest being in 2013, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as Margaret White. The first film adaptation was in 1976 and it starred Sissy Spacek as Carrie. There has also been a sequel made in 1999, a made for TV movie based on Carrie in 2002, and a Broadway musical in 1988.

Carrie isn’t the only Stephen King book currently being adapted for the screen as Jerusalem’s Lot is in development at Epix and it will star Adrien Brody, The Dark Half is being made into a movie at MGM, The Stand is set on CBS All Access, Castle Rock just finished their second season on Hulu, and The Outsider starring Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, and Jason Bateman will premier on HBO in January 2020.

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The three join Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Whoopi Goldberg, Daniel Sunjata, and Nat Wolff who will all star in the CBS All Access adaptation of the classic post-apocalyptic novel. 

TVLine reports that McNamara will play Julie Lawry, a small-town girl with a wild side who has a run-in with Lloyd (Wolff) in Las Vegas; Bailey will play Teddy Weizak, a superflu survivor and member of the body crew, alongside Harold (Teague); and Linklater will play Dr. Ellis, a military colonel and infectious disease specialist who dreams of being the hero who stops the superflu.

Production is currently underway in Vancouver. 

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5. Carrie (1976)

The original Carrie adaptation delivers all the horror of high school followed by all of the terror and suspense of a murder. Brian De Palma masterfully lures us into the mind of a paranoid teen in this sympathetic thriller.

4. IT (2017)

The IT remake is the highest-grossing horror movie of all time. The colorful blockbuster is tense, funny, and full of our favorite horror tropes. The sequel fell short of perfection but 2017’s IT was one of the most entertaining movies released that year.

3. The Green Mile

People often forget that the heart-breaking story of The Green Mile was originally written by Stephen King. There’s a reason that even the “toughest” macho men admit to crying over this masterpiece.

2. The Shining

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was so flawless that nobody has bothered trying to remake it since. Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of a man losing his mind is so convincing that the movie remains terrifying on the second or third rewatch.

1. The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption has spent years as the highest-rated movie on IMDB. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman give stellar performances and the film is considered by even the harshest critics as flawless from start to finish.

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The film is an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella of the same name, which the acclaimed author originally published in two parts in Esquire magazine in 2012 along with his son, Joe Hill.

The premise — siblings Becky and Cal get lost in a massive prairie and find themselves unable to escape. However, they soon discover that the only thing worse than getting lost is being found. 

The film is directed by Vincenzo Natali from his own screenplay. It stars Harrison Gilbertson, Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Will Buie Jr., Rachel Wilson, and Patrick Wilson. 

In the Tall Grass drops October 4 on Netflix.  

Watch the trailer for the film below.

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The forthcoming limited TV series will reimagine King’s latest novel The Institute for the small screen. Snatching up the rights to the novel are David E. Kelley and Jack Bender, who will develop the story for Spyglass Media Group.

Bender will direct the series, while both he and Kelley will executive produce.

“Having the opportunity to work on a new and brilliant book by Stephen King is an absolute privilege,” said Spyglass’ Lauren Whitney. “We are thrilled to collaborate with this dream team, including the incomparable David E. Kelley, and Jack Bender, the architect behind this project, whose extensive directing and executive producing credits speak for themselves. After such a competitive pursuit, we have big plans for The Institute here at Spyglass.”

The Institute hit shelves Tuesday. 

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The forthcoming limited TV adaptation of King’s 1978 novel The Stand is getting “a new coda that won’t be found in the book” penned by King himself. Yes, that’s right, King is writing new material for the finale of the 10-episode series. 

Entertainment Weekly also reports that the limited series of the apocalyptic story also added four to its cast. 

James Marsden will portray Stu Redman, “an ordinary working-class factory man in an extraordinary situation with a damaged quality to him that belies his exterior.”

Amber Heard will play Nadine Cross, “a deeply conflicted woman who feels the consequences of her actions, but is still compelled by her allegiance to Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.”

Odessa Young will play Frannie Goldsmith, “a pregnant young woman navigating a strange new world, who also has the foresight to recognize that there is evil lurking beyond the Dark Man.”

Henry Zaga will portray Nick Andros, “a young deaf and mute man who finds himself in a position of authority when the unthinkable happens. He has a habit of risking his own well-being for the safety of others.”

A premiere date has yet to be announced. 

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In the screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 horror novel and sequel to The Shinning, Danny (played by Ewan McGregor), Jack Nicholson’s on-screen son, is battling a drinking problem and the emergence of strange powers.

“When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining,” he says in the trailer. 

“We pick up Dan in New Jersey and in the throes of his alcoholism, kind of right at rock bottom is where we meet him,” writer-director Mike Flanagan said. “He’s nomadic, he’s violent, he’s crawled so far into a bottle that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out.”

“It’s really kind of a strange experience to meet your hero kind at their most awful version of themselves. Structurally, it’s really fascinating, from a writing point of view. You kind of feel like, ‘This is our hero, ladies and gentlemen, you’re going to meet him puking.’ So, yeah, we pick up Dan at the lowest point of his life,” Flanagan added.

“More than anything, this is a story about his redemption and trying to avoid repeating the same fate that his father had to deal with, outside of the hotel, just with his own addiction.”

The clip features iconic Overlook Hotel moments, including the old woman in the bathtub, the Grady twins in the hallway and the blood tidal wave.

The feature also stars Carl Lumbly, Zahn McLarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.

Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8. 

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The streaming service is making its first venture into the world of Stephen King, bringing his 1984 novel to the small screen. 

King wrote the novel for his daughter Naomi. It tells the story of two boys who are next in line to rule the realm of Delain after the death of their dragon-slaying father.

Lego Batman Movie writer, Ghrahame-Smith, penned the pilot. Smith and his KatzSmith Productions partner David Katzenberg will serve as executive producers. The duo recently produced the film adaptation of King’s It.

“I am so excited to be working in the world of Stephen King with Hulu, which has such a terrific track record with Stephen King adaptations,” Grahame-Smith told Deadline. “The goal for this series is to feel unlike any Stephen King adaptation before, with this rich underlying source material, and the only true fantasy book he wrote that has kings and swords and princesses. We will honor the spirit of the book and the legacy.”

The project follows a line of forthcoming adaptations of King’s works, including Pet Sematary, and It: Chapter Two.

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Alex Ross Perry (Golden Exists) is set to direct and write the feature which has been described as a “propulsive cat and mouse thriller that follows the twisted journey of two women after a fateful encounter at a highway rest stop.”

According to the description, the film adaptation of Rest Stop might differ a lot from the source material which features just one main protagonist who is a male. These might not be the only changes Perry makes to the original story, but we will have to wait and see for the movie to come out in order to find this out.

Rest Stop was first published in 2003 in Esquire magazine and won National Magazine Award for Fiction a year later. The story was later included in Stephen King’s 2008 collection Just After Sunset.

Several other adaptations of King’s works are slated to be released in the near future including the highly anticipated It: Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep, the sequel to 1980’s cult horror The Shining.

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The film took five years to make and although sources offer mixed reports, filming likely took the best part of a year. At the time he was cast, Danny Lloyd was just five-years-old. To protect him from psychological trauma, Kubrick did not tell Lloyd the storyline of the film. He told Danny that the film he was making was a drama and hid all of the horrific and frightening scenes from him. In the scene where his on-screen mother runs with Danny in his arms, it is actually a dummy. Lloyd was sixteen when he saw the movie for the first time.

Unfortunately, life on set was less pleasant for Shelly Duvall, who played Jack’s wife. There have many reports that Kubrick was exceptionally hard on her during filming. In the infamous “Here’s Johnny” scene where Wendy swings a bat at Jack, it took 127 takes to get right. In the scene that made the final cut, Duvall’s exhaustion and horror are genuine. She once said: “From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I’ve ever been pushed before. It’s the most difficult role I’ve ever had to play.” 

And do you remember child actresses Lisa and Louise Burns who played the creepy twins? They were never meant to be cast, but Kubrick decided that twins were way creepier than one young girl. For their birthday, the director gave the twins vials of fake blood. It was the same fake blood that they had to lie in following their brutal on-screen murder. 

Unfortunately, despite all of the effort that went into making sure the entire cast gave it their all, Stephen King was not happy with the movie. He describes it as a “disappointment” and thinks that Jack Nicholson was all wrong for the role. Ironically, King may be one of the only horror fanatics who didn’t like the movie.

The post Life On the Set of “The Shining” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The project, which was first reported by Collider, is in development at FX and it’s still in the early stages and a writer hasn’t been attached yet.

The book has had two film adaptations, with the latest being in 2013, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as Margaret White. The first film adaptation was in 1976 and it starred Sissy Spacek as Carrie. There has also been a sequel made in 1999, a made for TV movie based on Carrie in 2002, and a Broadway musical in 1988.

Carrie isn’t the only Stephen King book currently being adapted for the screen as Jerusalem’s Lot is in development at Epix and it will star Adrien Brody, The Dark Half is being made into a movie at MGM, The Stand is set on CBS All Access, Castle Rock just finished their second season on Hulu, and The Outsider starring Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, and Jason Bateman will premier on HBO in January 2020.

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The three join Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Whoopi Goldberg, Daniel Sunjata, and Nat Wolff who will all star in the CBS All Access adaptation of the classic post-apocalyptic novel. 

TVLine reports that McNamara will play Julie Lawry, a small-town girl with a wild side who has a run-in with Lloyd (Wolff) in Las Vegas; Bailey will play Teddy Weizak, a superflu survivor and member of the body crew, alongside Harold (Teague); and Linklater will play Dr. Ellis, a military colonel and infectious disease specialist who dreams of being the hero who stops the superflu.

Production is currently underway in Vancouver. 

The post Stephen King’s “The Stand” Casts Three Stars appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

5. Carrie (1976)

The original Carrie adaptation delivers all the horror of high school followed by all of the terror and suspense of a murder. Brian De Palma masterfully lures us into the mind of a paranoid teen in this sympathetic thriller.

4. IT (2017)

The IT remake is the highest-grossing horror movie of all time. The colorful blockbuster is tense, funny, and full of our favorite horror tropes. The sequel fell short of perfection but 2017’s IT was one of the most entertaining movies released that year.

3. The Green Mile

People often forget that the heart-breaking story of The Green Mile was originally written by Stephen King. There’s a reason that even the “toughest” macho men admit to crying over this masterpiece.

2. The Shining

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was so flawless that nobody has bothered trying to remake it since. Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of a man losing his mind is so convincing that the movie remains terrifying on the second or third rewatch.

1. The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption has spent years as the highest-rated movie on IMDB. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman give stellar performances and the film is considered by even the harshest critics as flawless from start to finish.

The post The Top 5 Stephen King Movies Ranked From Worst To Best appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The film is an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella of the same name, which the acclaimed author originally published in two parts in Esquire magazine in 2012 along with his son, Joe Hill.

The premise — siblings Becky and Cal get lost in a massive prairie and find themselves unable to escape. However, they soon discover that the only thing worse than getting lost is being found. 

The film is directed by Vincenzo Natali from his own screenplay. It stars Harrison Gilbertson, Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Will Buie Jr., Rachel Wilson, and Patrick Wilson. 

In the Tall Grass drops October 4 on Netflix.  

Watch the trailer for the film below.

The post Watch: The Trailer for Netflix’s “In the Tall Grass” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The forthcoming limited TV series will reimagine King’s latest novel The Institute for the small screen. Snatching up the rights to the novel are David E. Kelley and Jack Bender, who will develop the story for Spyglass Media Group.

Bender will direct the series, while both he and Kelley will executive produce.

“Having the opportunity to work on a new and brilliant book by Stephen King is an absolute privilege,” said Spyglass’ Lauren Whitney. “We are thrilled to collaborate with this dream team, including the incomparable David E. Kelley, and Jack Bender, the architect behind this project, whose extensive directing and executive producing credits speak for themselves. After such a competitive pursuit, we have big plans for The Institute here at Spyglass.”

The Institute hit shelves Tuesday. 

The post Stephen King’s “The Institute” is Being Developed as a Limited Series appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The forthcoming limited TV adaptation of King’s 1978 novel The Stand is getting “a new coda that won’t be found in the book” penned by King himself. Yes, that’s right, King is writing new material for the finale of the 10-episode series. 

Entertainment Weekly also reports that the limited series of the apocalyptic story also added four to its cast. 

James Marsden will portray Stu Redman, “an ordinary working-class factory man in an extraordinary situation with a damaged quality to him that belies his exterior.”

Amber Heard will play Nadine Cross, “a deeply conflicted woman who feels the consequences of her actions, but is still compelled by her allegiance to Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.”

Odessa Young will play Frannie Goldsmith, “a pregnant young woman navigating a strange new world, who also has the foresight to recognize that there is evil lurking beyond the Dark Man.”

Henry Zaga will portray Nick Andros, “a young deaf and mute man who finds himself in a position of authority when the unthinkable happens. He has a habit of risking his own well-being for the safety of others.”

A premiere date has yet to be announced. 

The post “The Stand:” Stephen King to Write Final Episode, Adds Four to Cast appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

In the screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 horror novel and sequel to The Shinning, Danny (played by Ewan McGregor), Jack Nicholson’s on-screen son, is battling a drinking problem and the emergence of strange powers.

“When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining,” he says in the trailer. 

“We pick up Dan in New Jersey and in the throes of his alcoholism, kind of right at rock bottom is where we meet him,” writer-director Mike Flanagan said. “He’s nomadic, he’s violent, he’s crawled so far into a bottle that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out.”

“It’s really kind of a strange experience to meet your hero kind at their most awful version of themselves. Structurally, it’s really fascinating, from a writing point of view. You kind of feel like, ‘This is our hero, ladies and gentlemen, you’re going to meet him puking.’ So, yeah, we pick up Dan at the lowest point of his life,” Flanagan added.

“More than anything, this is a story about his redemption and trying to avoid repeating the same fate that his father had to deal with, outside of the hotel, just with his own addiction.”

The clip features iconic Overlook Hotel moments, including the old woman in the bathtub, the Grady twins in the hallway and the blood tidal wave.

The feature also stars Carl Lumbly, Zahn McLarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.

Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8. 

The post Get a First Look at “The Shining” Sequel “Doctor Sleep” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The streaming service is making its first venture into the world of Stephen King, bringing his 1984 novel to the small screen. 

King wrote the novel for his daughter Naomi. It tells the story of two boys who are next in line to rule the realm of Delain after the death of their dragon-slaying father.

Lego Batman Movie writer, Ghrahame-Smith, penned the pilot. Smith and his KatzSmith Productions partner David Katzenberg will serve as executive producers. The duo recently produced the film adaptation of King’s It.

“I am so excited to be working in the world of Stephen King with Hulu, which has such a terrific track record with Stephen King adaptations,” Grahame-Smith told Deadline. “The goal for this series is to feel unlike any Stephen King adaptation before, with this rich underlying source material, and the only true fantasy book he wrote that has kings and swords and princesses. We will honor the spirit of the book and the legacy.”

The project follows a line of forthcoming adaptations of King’s works, including Pet Sematary, and It: Chapter Two.

The post Stephen King’s “The Eyes of the Dragon” is Coming to Hulu appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Alex Ross Perry (Golden Exists) is set to direct and write the feature which has been described as a “propulsive cat and mouse thriller that follows the twisted journey of two women after a fateful encounter at a highway rest stop.”

According to the description, the film adaptation of Rest Stop might differ a lot from the source material which features just one main protagonist who is a male. These might not be the only changes Perry makes to the original story, but we will have to wait and see for the movie to come out in order to find this out.

Rest Stop was first published in 2003 in Esquire magazine and won National Magazine Award for Fiction a year later. The story was later included in Stephen King’s 2008 collection Just After Sunset.

Several other adaptations of King’s works are slated to be released in the near future including the highly anticipated It: Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep, the sequel to 1980’s cult horror The Shining.

The post Stephen King’s Short Story “Rest Stop” to Get a Movie Adaptation appeared first on Entertainment For Us.